Pool-ball.



V. B. HUBBELL POL BALL.

uPLIoA'rIoH'rILED rBB. 24, 1914.

1, 1 08,441 Patented Aug.. 25, 1911 @Wi/Webau: 51m-vanto@ MLL/,WMMUL sul'lieient accurzu'cy.

VJENGENT HUBEELL, Ell? NEWT N. 'Y'.

PU iL-BALL.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Ifatented Aug. 2li, 19.1.4.

Application filed February 2t, 19t/l. Serial No. 829,584,

To all tolto/1a 'it muy concer-u Be it known that i, Viii'cnn'r ll. l-lunnnn, a ritlften et the lilnited kilates, and resident ot new York, borough o1le danhattan, county and State ol' New York, have iliade a new and useful invention in lool-lalls, et Which the followingl is a specification.

My invention is directed particularly to improvements in pool balls for enabling, players oit this ganie to incre accurately determine the relative angular positions of the ditferent halls upon the table, and it consists in providing means upon all of the balls to be poclicted in the gaine ct pool, or what is new lniown as pocket billiards, whereby the player may inore easily determine how to drive the cueball in pocketing the other balls successively, or in ascertaining more accurately Where combination shots may be elliected.

Pool balls are ditterent troni billiard balls in that they are inade either et dillierent col ors or have variously arranged zones or seetors of different colors and the numbers ot the balls inclosed in White number surfaces located on opposite sides ot each other. 'lo illustrate these balls are made o'lE ivory or composition and nuinber one ball is colored yellow with the number l in a White nuinber surface surrounded by a black ring; and located on opposite sides oil. the ball. Noni-v ber nine ball is provided with a yellow ceintral Zone having the numbers placed in White number surfaces surrounded by black rings and located on opposite sides of the ball, and polar zones oli pure White. Number seven is the saine as number one, except that instead of beingl yellow, the body of the ball is a darlr red. lt will therefore be appreciated that the distiin-,tive adjacent parts of the seyeral balls out well known 'Iforin are of circular contorination so that the eye `cannot readily locate the relative relations of the parts with l have overcome this dilliculty by placing. ,1` upon the exterior sur :tace oit all of the halls one or incre irregular or zigzag; lines running entirely therearound so that the eye of the player .niay readily lo rate the like parts ot dill'erent balls and thus more accurately measure, with his eye, the angles in shooting.

My invention will be fully understood by ret lring' to the accompanying drawing' which. is an enlarggged perspective `View of a number litteen pool ball in which A. represents the ball as a Whole, B the white nunr lier-sarthee with 'the black ring therearound and the number lo inchiised, :it/being,l understoiul that the lille ini1nbei;'suriiace, number and ring' are on the opposite und unseen side ot the ball, the dai-lc red yone having parallel circles at its edges, as shown. ln iny invention, however, l provide two saigzag lines C, l at the edges of the Zones and identically alike so that in locating the angular relation oit the dilt'erent balls in shooting the player is enabled to .tix his eye deiinitely upon some particular angular point of the different balls and to aiin at the cue-ball accordingly. l have ascertaxined that Vwith this arrangeinent inarlted perfect results are obtained. ltvwill be observed that by making the Zig zag lin-es run entirely around the ball tha-t no part ci both ot said lines Will ever be out ot' sight ot the player, so that he will be enabled to perceive like angular relations of any two balls-by observino the correspondu ine,l angular lines ol each hall.

llt' coi'lrsc, it will be understood that the signatur lines C, C, will be placed upon the` pool balls, ii'lteen in number, in exactly the stune :relation to the number thereof, so 'that the player in observing` the angulai.' relations oi" the halls to each other and to the cueball, .may note the saine with accuracy; as this feature ol? observing the angular relations t the balls to each other and the fact l hat some part olf the line is always visible to the player, so that such angular relations can he noted, constitutes the Very important 'feature ol.f my invention.

l do not liinit inyselt to the use of any iufunber ot these zigzag lines, or to the particular arrangement thereof, as one such line located in a great circle ot the surface of the hall might be used, or any other arntno'enient thereof where this special indication is so arranged that sonic part ot the line or lines is or are always `visible to the player on all of the balls, no matter what the loca tion of the numbers and number surfaces inay be.

l ain aware that heretofore a set of pool balls has been devised in which one or `nacre playing' cards is or are indicated on the tace oit' the balls 'tor the u'upose ot enabling persons to play different gaines, as disclosed in ll. lil. Patent to Stevens No. (366,333, and I malte no olaiin hereinafter to this feature, as iny inventionis tor an entirely different obyiect, as her ,heil-'ore stated. Nor does the -invention disclosed in said patent make it tion of pool balls with relation to each other embodying one or more zigzag lines located on the surface thereof, some part of which l5 is always Yisible no matter what the position of the ball.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

VINCENT B. HUBBELL. Titnesses C. J. KINTNER, M. F. KEATING.

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